Archives for December, 2009

There are 25 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own…

Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 9:00-10:05am: A. Earth Science, Web 2.0+, and Geospatial Applications – Jacqueline Floyd and Chris Rowan Description: We will discuss online and mobile applications for earth science research, including solid earth, ocean, and atmosphere subtopics. Current…

As you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what. Walter Jessen is a cancer biologist and bioinformatician. He is…

Two years ago, at the 2008 Science Blogging Conference, Dave Munger introduced to the world a new concept and a new wesbite to support that concept – ResearchBlogging.org. What is that all about? Well, as the media is cuttting science out of the newsroom and the science reporting is falling onto institutional press information officers…

The December 2009 edition of the Journal of Science Communication is now online with some intriguing articles – all Open Access so you can download all the PDFs and read: Control societies and the crisis of science journalism: In a brief text written in 1990, Gilles Deleuze took his friend Michel Foucault’s work as a…

As many of you, my readers, are interested in Open Access publishing and have given it quite some thought over time, I think you are the right kind of people to contribute to this in a thoughtful and persuasive manner. Please do it. From everyONE blog: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy…